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GCSE English/English Literature: Analyses and explanations need a wider-ranging vocabulary to keep your ideas lively! Here’s the favourite verb used by students: SHOWS But obviously the verb ‘shows’ can become… Read More »GCSE English Language and literature: Useful words for your essay writing!
A Christmas Carol: Stave Two Analysis. “Belle,” said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile[J1] , “I saw an old friend [J2] of yours this afternoon.” “Who was it?” “Guess!”[J3] … Read More »Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Stave Two Analysis( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton and Manchester)
I had been wondering why my aunts had quit leaving me voicemails, why my cousin’s texts had dried up. I had figured, with a hot scraped soreness, that it was… Read More »GCSE English Language Analysis: Tana French, The Wych Elm. (English Tuition Bolton, Manchester).
Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! What is revealed about Macbeth’s mental state here? Here are a few suggested responses to support your own ideas. See which… Read More »GCSE English Literature: Macbeth’s mind full of Scorpions ( Analysis Bolton English Tuition)
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” How does this statement make the reader feel about Dr Jekyll’s situation and character? What can you say about the… Read More »GCSE English Literature: Writing about EFFECTs! ( Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) ANALYSIS.
How do you start your story in an immediately effective way? Ask a question. Remember questions demand answers and that is what a story must provide for the reader-answers! 1)… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: How to begin a story-ask a question!( English Tuition Bolton, Manchester) .
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: How Questions and boost our understanding and help produce a meaningful analysis! How Nobody Came to the Graveyard There was a hand in the darkness,… Read More »Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: Questions to Boost PEEL Paragraphs and Analysis!
Writing the opening to a story requires a ‘hook’ so that the reader feels engaged and wants to follow your writing into a new world away from their daily concerns.… Read More »GCSE English Language Creative Writing: Engage your reader by using direct address. ( Bolton English Tuition)
MACBETH [Aside] Two truths are told,As happy prologues to the swelling actOf the imperial theme.–I thank you, gentlemen. AsideCannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,Why hath it given me… Read More »Macbeth Act One Scene 3: Self-deception-Everybody lies. ( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton).
Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large. It is also a fact, that… Read More »A Christmas Carol Stave One: The Lobster! ( Analysis and Discussion – GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton).
The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a… Read More »Marley’s First Appearance in A Christmas Carol (Stave One) Dickens: Ideas and Worksheet( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton).
Stave five. In a nut-shell. Scrooge is almost delirious with joy as he recognises that he still has ‘time’ to make amends for his selfish behaviour. ‘I am here.’… Read More »Dickens, A Christmas Carol Final (Fifth) Stave Analysis: GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton Manchester.
Very many congratulations to all my students this year! Last Thursday proved an exceptionally happy day and I was even in tears ( with joy) twice! The new specifications are… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton: Why the English Language Examination should not be Underestimated! (TIP ONE)
That are still courting-places(But the lovers are all in school),And their children, so intent onFinding more unripe acorns,Expect to be taken home.Their beauty has thickened.Something is pushing themTo the side… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin- Stanza Three analysis( GCSE English literature Tuition Bolton).
Stave four. In a nutshell. The final ghost commands respect, fear and subservience immediately. Chilling effect as this Ghost remains silent and so heightens the tension and mystery. Enigmatically points… Read More »A Christmas Carol by Dickens -Stave Four: Analysis and Summary ( English Literature GCSE Tuition Bolton).
Behind them, at intervals,Stand husbands in skilled trades,An estateful of washing,And the albums, letteredOur Wedding, lyingNear the television:Before them, the windIs ruining their courting-places Larkin’s use of the preposition ‘behind’… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin: Stanza Three Analysis- Eduqas Bolton English Tuition.
Summer is fading:The leaves fall in ones and twosFrom trees borderingThe new recreation ground.In the hollows of afternoonsYoung mothers assembleAt swing and sandpitSetting free their children. In my previous blog… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin(GCSE Eduqas Anthology)Analysis Two(Stanza One).
Summer is fading:The leaves fall in ones and twosFrom trees borderingThe new recreation ground.In the hollows of afternoonsYoung mothers assembleAt swing and sandpitSetting free their children. Behind them, at intervals,Stand… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin: Analysis for GCSE English Literature Examination-Part One ( Bolton Tuition).
Creative Writing: Find your protagonist’s sacred flaw. ‘Because things fit together, doesn’t mean they’re the truth.’ (William Shaw, A Song from Dead Lips). Compelling characters deceive themselves. They believe their… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tips: Find your character’s sacred flaw.
Think about these questions and considerations as you build an answer to the comparison question. Who is speaking in each poem and where are they speaking from? Look at the use… Read More »GCSE English Literature Poetry Comparison TIPS!
As we draw near to the English Language examinations here’s a wonderful insight into pace in storytelling. According to D B Pierre, writing is like running. It’s all about breathing.… Read More »GCSE English Writing Tips by D B Pierre Release the Bats!
Macbeth GCSE Analysis: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Speech-Handy Vocabulary. SEYTON The queen, my lord, is dead. MACBETH She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for… Read More »Macbeth Act V Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow GCSE Analysis and Word Bank. ( Bolton English Tuition )
Why is the protagonist and ‘detective’ called Mr Utterson? Is his legal profession important? Does it suggest rationality and fairness as well as discretion? Does Jekyll’s strange behaviour compromise Utterson’s… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Mr Utterson- Analysis of his character Part One ( GCSE English Literature- Bolton English Tuition)
Macbeth: Act One-Analysis and discussion. ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair..’ The contaminating motivation of the witches is succinctly captured in this subversive paradox. Here, the evident pleasure of… Read More »Macbeth: Act One Analysis and Discussion GCSE English Tuition Bolton
Creative writing tips GCSE. What does your character want? And what do they need? Consider these questions in the light(and often darkness) of your title. All titles will give you… Read More »Creative Writing TIPS GCSE English Language Tuition Bolton Manchester
GCSE English Revision Tips for Exams! (Last minute BOOSTS!) Here are a few tips for your English revision and those forthcoming examinations. When you are asked to ANALYSE any text… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester( TIPS!)
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way:… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act 1 Sc 5: Lady Macbeth’s Ambition- Analysis ( English Tuition Bolton).
On going down in the morning, I found my auntmusing so profoundly over the breakfast table, with her elbow on the tray, thatthe contents of the urn had overflowed the… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Why reading David Copperfield helps us to read(and write) ourselves.
Refresh your writing through rewriting: A Simple Solution to the problem of ‘dull’ story writing. The problem. Many students tell me that their creative writing task lets them down. Perhaps… Read More »GCSE English Language: Creative Writing Tip! ( Bolton Tuition)
Emotional Excavation! ( Inspired and indebted to Donald Maass’ Emotional Craft of Fiction and Damon Suede’s Verbalize). The problem. How do you make readers experience your characters’ emotions? Feelings are… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton: Creative Writing Task. (Why emotions drive your stories)
